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1609804945

9781609804947

b580949

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fearless speech in fateful times : the top censored stories and media analysis of 2012-13

[edited by] Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, with Project Censored ; foreword by Sarah van Gelder ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib.

Seven Stories Press first edition

New York, NY

Seven Stories Press, [

2013]

431 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Solutions in a time of climate meltdown : the most censored (and indispensible) story / by Sarah van Gelder --; Censored news and media analysis. Note on research and evaluation of censored news stories --; Top 25 censored stories from 2012-13 and censored news clusters --; Top 25 story summaries / compiled by Andy Lee Roth --; Bradley Manning and the failure of corporate media --; Richest global 1 percent hide trillions in tax havens --; Trans-Pacific partnership threatens a regime of corporate global governance --; Obama's war on whistleblowers --; Hate groups and antigovernment groups on rise across US --; Billionaires' rising wealth intensifies poverty and inequality --; Merchants of death and nuclear weapons --; Bank interests inflate global prices by 35 to 40 percent --; Icelanders vote to include commons in their constitution --; A "culture of cruelty" along Mexico-US border --; Bush blocked Iran nuclear deal --; The US has left Iraq with an epidemic of cancers and birth defects --; A fifth of Americans go hungry --; Wireless technology a looming health crisis --; Food riots : the new normal? --; Journalism under attack around the globe --; The Creative Commons celebrates ten years of sharing and cultural creation --; Fracking our food supply --; The power of peaceful revolution in Iceland --; Israel counted minimum calorie needs in Gaza blockage --; Monsanto and India's "suicide economy" --; Pennsylvania law gags doctors to protect Big Oil's "proprietary secrets" --; Transaction tax helps civilize Wall Street and lower the national debt --; Widespread GMO contamination : did Monsanto plant GMOs before USDA approval? --; Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian immigrants without their consent --; Censored news clusters. Whistleblowers and gag laws / by Brian Covert --; Plutocracy, poverty, and prosperity / by James F. Tracy --; Human rights and civil liberties / by Susan Rahman and Donna Nassor --; Technologies and ecologies of war / by Targol Mesbah and Zara Zimbardo --; Health and the environment / by Susan Rahman and Liliana Valdez-Madera --; Iceland, the power of peaceful revolution, and the Commons / by Andy Lee Roth --; Déjà vu : what happened to previous censored stories? / by Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon ; with Andrew O'Connor-Watts, Jen Eiden, Allen Kew, Emmie Ruhland, Aaron Hudson, Rex Yang, Sam Park, Amitai Cohen, Michael Kolbe, and Matthew Carhart --; Can't touch this : junk food news and news abuse / by Mickey Huff, Michael Kolbe, Nolan Higdon, Sam Park, Jennifer Eiden, and Kimberly Soiero --; Media democracy in action : free press and free speech advocates that make a difference / compiled by Mickey Huff ; with contributions by Daniel Ellsberg, On civil courage; Josh Wolf, Journalism that matters; William Creely, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; Christopher M. Finan, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; Acacia O'Connor, National Coalition Against Censorship and Kids' Right to Read; Tony Diaz, Librotraficante; Beau Hodai, DBA Press; Sunsara Taylor, Stop patriarchy; John Collins, The Weave; and Ken Walden, What the world could be --; Critical thinking, media literacy, and narratives of power. Digging deeper : politico-corporate media manipulation, critical thinking, and democracy / by Elliot D. Cohen --; Diffusing conspiracy panics : on the public use of reason in the twenty-first century truth emergency / by James F. Tracy --; Censorship that dares not speak its name : the strange silencing of liberal America / by John Pilger --; Screening the homeland : how Hollywood fantasy mediates state fascism in the US of empire / by Rob Williams --; Case studies of "unhistory" in the making--; and how to build a better future. Exposing the financial core of the transnational capitalist class / by Peter Phillips and Brady Osborne --; Apple exposed : the untold story of globalization / by Nicki Lisa Cole and Tara Krishna --; The "new" American imperialism in Africa : secret Sahara wars and AFRICOM / by Brian Martin Murphy --; The sixth mass extinction / by Julie Andrzjewski and John C. Alessio --; The new story : why we need one and how to create it / by Michael Nagler.

Presents major news stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media in 2012-2013, covering such topics as global warming, hunger in America, GMO's, whistleblowers, human rights, hate groups, fracking, nuclear weapons, and income inequality.

14 censored

Censorship -- United States.

History, Modern -- 21st century.

Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States.

[edited by] Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, with Project Censored ; foreword by Sarah van Gelder ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib.

Andrew Lee Roth

Mickey Huff

Project Censored (U.S.)

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